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The Five Coolest Products I Saw at CES 2014 Blog

This year’s CES showcased a lot of new and enticing technology products. I had the opportunity to spend some time walking the show floor and here are the top five products that caught my eye.   1. Panasonic AX800 4K LCD TV Panasonic has always had a reputation for producing some of the best plasma TVs on the market. However, just a couple of months ago they announced the discontinuation of their plasma product line due to declining profits, leaving TV picture quality enthusiasts (myself included) to wonder how they could ever replace those amazing black levels and smooth motion with an LCD display.

MyHome Setup Guide Document

MyHome Licensing Beginning in April 2013, a MyHome site license is included with new controller purchases. If you purchased your controller prior to April 2013, please contact your dealer about licensing. Control4 Account Prior to setting up the MyHome app, you need a MyControl4 account with an accompanying email address and password. If you do not know the email address for your Control4 account, please contact please visit customer.control4.com and follow the steps to reset your password. If you’ve never created a Control4 account or registered a controller, see “Creating an Account and Registering the Controller” in the Control4 System User Guide at http://www.

Control4 Takes on Alzheimer's Project

Many home automation projects are about making things easier and more convenient for the client. For Watchfulcare, a Control4© dealer in Ottawa, Ontario, one project was a matter of life and death. Their clients, Ross and Anita Staples, live with the daily challenges and hazards of Alzheimer's disease and were looking for a home automation solution in their penthouse to meet these challenges. Tom Dewar of Watchfulcare was able to create a solution that would give the Staples the same state-of-the-art home automation with a few enhancements that literally watch over them. Automated Alarms Because Anita cannot sleep in the same room as Ross and is in constant danger of wandering, Dewar needed to create a system that recognized when she awoke and alerted Ross.

Not Your Grandad’s Door-Phone: Introducing Control4’s High-Definition Video Intercom Blog

This post comes to us from Lisa Montgomery, Senior Editor at Electronic House and freelance home technology writer. According to research company IHS, intercoms have been gaining in popularity once again. Well, sort of. Actually, it’s the video intercom, or video door-phone as they are sometimes called, that’s generating a lot of buzz recently. It’s a technology that’s predicted to be worth an estimated $2.3 billion in 2014, an increase of $100 million from 2013. It’s a hot commodity, and for good reason. Intercom is a great way to monitor what’s happening in and around your household.

Let's Get Wired! Blog

If you’re building a new home and your wish list includes overhead music throughout the house, distributed video in your favorite rooms, a robust networking platform to let you stream to your heart’s content, or you’re going full bore with a whole-home automation system—it’s absolutely critical that structured wiring is a part of your grand plan.   Looking to wire up a pre-existing home? While it may prove to be a bit more work, it’s still very common and just as important as wiring a home in the new construction phase.   Regardless of whether your house is new or pre-existing, wiring that is done correctly can save you time, money, and frustration.

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Control4 Lighting Control Is Now Better Than Ever! Blog

Today, we issued a press release announcing our next generation, amazingly fantastic new lighting solutions. The product family represents one of the most significant product rollouts in our company’s history. Consumers are getting their smarts-on with regard to intelligent lighting (the industry muckety-mucks say we’ll spend about $4.3 billion on smart solutions by 2020)—and we’re delivering elegantly “brilliant” solutions that will help facilitate this trend.   Up until recently, many consumers who have embraced home automation did so with the intent to trick out their family room—most likely because they just bought a new flat panel TV, or to drive multi-room audio throughout the home, or to automate climate control to better manage energy consumption in the house.

Control4 Mobile Updates Blog

FASTER REMOTE CONNECTIONS (FRC)   If FRC was a t-shirt, it would read: Control4 Completely Overhauled and Optimized their Backend Remote-Connection Infrastructure, and All I Got Was a New Icon (and Faster Connection Speeds.)    Experience faster-than-ever connection speeds (up to 40% than before!) with this update for iOS and Android. It encompasses a series of fixes, enhancements and large-scale backend infrastructure changes that are only the beginning of continual improvements and speed optimizations slated for future development. See for yourself with new icons on the Settings page! A laptop icon indicates a local connection, a globe icon indicates a standard connection, and a lightning bolt shows a faster connection.     ANSWER DOORBELL WITH  Due to Apple privacy considerations, iOS users were unable to preview video calls before answering.

Remotes Product

The Halo, the Halo Touch, and the Control4 SR-260 remotes are the perfect hand-held interfaces to the whole home. Controls audio and video equipment, as well as lights and scenes, media browsing, voice control, and more. These beautiful remotes feel good in the hand, have an intuitive button layout perfect for one-handed operation, and are highly customizable. Transcend Smart Transcend Control Halo technology improves the smart universal remote experience.

ISU Basketball Goes High Tech Blog

The heartland takes its sports seriously, so when Iowa State University decided to build a new, 36,000 square foot, $8 million basketball practice facility, consolidating and simplifying all audio, video and control systems into one easy-to-use solution was at the top of their “must-haves.” Despite offering a building large enough to hold both the men’s and women’s organizations, ISU also wanted an automation system that attracted potential recruits. In addition to 24-hour access to the courts, athletes enjoy the 65-inch HDTVs, iPod docks, Playstation 3s, and Nintendo Wiis in both the men’s and women’s lounges. Athletes can manage the multiple systems using either a Control4 remote or in-wall touch screen and staff members have remote monitoring access for security and maintenance capabilities.